Friday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲午 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Horse and the month is Ox; their relationship produces this officer.
This is a general traditional quality. Read the Suggested and Avoid lists for individual activities; the name does not promise success.
Traditional recommendations
Translations of the traditional entries. Enable Chinese originals to compare.
Suitable For
- Marriage嫁娶
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual release解除
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
Avoid
- Felling trees伐木
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Installing doors or gates安门
- House construction and roofing盖屋
